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iphignia939 May. 13th, 2010 11:23 pm)
iphignia939 May. 13th, 2010 11:23 pm)HOLY FUCKING SHIT THIS SHOW HAVE I MENTIONED I LOVE IT?
1) There’s something weirdly awesome about Founders’ Day, AKA Civil War Reenactment Day. What kind of budget does this town have, that you can piss it away on era-appropriate uniforms? Jesus.
2) Aaaaaaaaand somewhere between the dress and the curtsey, you can see it in Damon’s face: He is in love with Elena Gilbert. He loves her. He is stupidly, passionately, not-even-to-piss-Stefan-off in love with that girl. And it is beautiful.
(That does not mean I want him to be with Elena. Ideally, I want the town to operate under a cloud of sex pollen, the way I think all the water fountains are filled with bourbon. Alternately, if they could just live in some giant polyamory mass of Elena/Stefan/Damon/Alaric/Bonnie, I would be thrilled.)
3) How weird must Founders’ Day be for Anna and the Salvatores? I imagine it’d be like if I woke up one day and this town decided to celebrate Z. Cavariccis and Hypercolor shirts.
4) “He’s your brother. He’ll forgive you.” Stefan! You need to take your own advice! Seriously, I’d pay real money if the two of them had to do some sort of couples’ weekend with trust falls and shit.
(“You need to be a rainbow, Stefan, not a painbow.” TELL ME YOU WOULD NOT HAVE THAT AS YOUR RINGTONE.)
5) “I don’t take what you did lightly, so...thank you.” And we’ll come back to this later, but this is the official start of The Very Long Night of Damon Salvatore, except at the end of it he realizes he likes people and kind of tells Jeremy. While looking like he wants to barf. It is so, so much better than it sounds.
6) For the record, as soon as Damon thanked Bonnie and apologized to her, I started crying.
7) So Jonathan Gilbert’s device – powered by magic, because he could not invent shit – is basically a giant tuning fork, freaking the fuck out of vampires. And Lockwoods. Who are not vampires. Just puttin’ that out there.
8) –-yeah, so the Lockwoods are totally werewolves. Hi, Season Two! I’m thinking of getting shirts made!
9) “[Elena] erased my memories.” “No, I did that.” Better nature waking up or not, Damon still gets really fucking twitchy when you try to take agency away from him. (If he chooses to lie, that’s a different story, but God forbid you try to do it for him.)
10) “Don’t make me regret being your friend.” Extra points for Damon’s “OH MY GOD, I HAVE FRIENDS NOW” face, followed immediately thereafter by “...goddammit, ‘friends’ doesn’t get your pants off.”
11) The town is now, essentially, run by Mrs. Lockwood and Sheriff Forbes. Who are both ladies. HOW AWESOME IS THAT.
12) “Rick! Do you still have weapons in your car?” Alaric Saltzman, the lost Winchester.
--Also, this totally means Damon and Alaric ARE BEFFIES NOW. Damon uses a nickname and asks for help, and Alaric doesn’t even blink, just runs to get stakes. Alaric is best friends with the dude who boned his wife and made her a vampire. Damon tried to kill Alaric. They are beffies. I LOVE THIS SHOW SO MUCH.
13) Mayor Lockwood tries to throw Tyler out and shove him around, and Caroline and Matt immediately flank him. This is because Tyler Lockwood has awesome friends.
14) If you had told me a year ago that I’d love Tyler and Caroline, I would have laughed ‘til I peed.
15) “What the hell are you?” Werewolves, Damon! They’re werewolves! Man, witches v. werewolves v. vampires. Have I mentioned I love Mystic Falls?
16) Oh, Mayor Lockwood. You were an alpha male douchebag (dear Alaric: RIGHT ON ALL COUNTS), and your wife is a drunk who makes eyes at men – okay, men way, way older than her – and you thought Vicki was white trash. You smacked your son around, and you used your townsfolk as bait. I...am not gonna miss you at all, actually, but it was worth it for his “OH SHIT AAAAAGH” when Damon told him he was a vampire.
17) Yeah, Bonnie shouldn’t have pulled that shit last week; yeah, Bonnie should have immediately grabbed Damon as soon as he apologized and told him and Stefan to get the fuck out of town. But she manned up, figured shit out, and saved their lives by smothering the fires while letting the actual bad vampires die. For the record, this totally makes everyone even. (You know, for Damon trying to kill her, and that time Stefan was a rabid drunk.)
18) And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you round up vampires in 2010: steampunk and witchery.
19) “I tried so hard to hate [Damon]. I guess it’s pointless.” This is officially more honest and clearheaded and healthy than SIX PUBLISHED BOOKS’ worth of familiar relationships. TV show, I just might love you best.
20) “But I love you, Stefan. You.” She’s not saying it to convince herself. She’s saying it because she loves her boyfriend, but he is thickheaded about this sort of thing (with very good reason). Elena Gilbert loves Stefan Salvatore. TV show, fuck might: I DO love you best.
21) Damon! You get points for trying, and I love you just for offering Jeremy a choice this time, but – I don’t know if you didn’t have emo, exactly, in 1864, but he is in exactly the wrong place to hear about how great it is for vampires not to feel shit. (Especially because that’s not what Damon was saying: it was awesome, and for a very long time, but he’s not doing that anymore.
22) Damon wanted to help Anna! He admitted what he did to Vicki was wrong! He looks guilty! Damon Salvatore feels things and likes people, and it is so fucking pretty I cannot even express it.
23) I’m not going to lie: the True Blood commercial was awesome, just because – really? That’s like a Twilight commercial, to me, right now: I am watching what’s essentially the bastard child of the two, and it is so much better than its parents.
24) Oh, Littlest Gilbert, really? Drinking Anna’s blood and taking all the pills in the house? You’re gonna be the first vampire in Mystic Falls to run the Hot Topic, aren’t you?
25) “Things have to change. Damon has to change.” Yes, because Bonnie Bennett will be the little cricket on his shoulder. Except if Pinocchio screwed up, Jiminy didn’t, you know, set him on fire.
“I know what I am, now.” You’re a witch who can set fires with your mind, and stop them. You can feel compassion for someone who tried to kill you. You’re Emily Bennett’s descendant, and the resident witch of Mystic Falls, Virginia. You are Bonnie Bennett and you are fucking badass. And I am so, so glad you didn’t die.
(Do not even tell me you can’t mine this for hatesex. Do not even tell me that.)
26) AND THEN.
Step One: Damon admits he likes people, and tacitly admits he’s in love with Elena, and kisses her. Elena kisses back. It is shockingly hot, for all that I don’t really ship them.
Step Two: Jenna, who was a teenager once, and is awesome now, glares disapprovingly at Damon and orders Elena inside.
Step Three: John comes home and starts explaining himself to Elena, who suddenly looks really, really dead-eyed, though who wouldn’t after your birth father tried to kill her loved o--
--OH SHIT, THAT’S KATHERINE.
OH SHIT, KATHERINE JUST CUT OFF JOHN’S FINGERS (in a shot way, way more graphic than I figured you could bust out at 8 PM on the CW) AND STABBED HIM IN THE CHEST. “Hi, John. Goodbye, John.”
OH SHIT, DAMON JUST MADE OUT WITH HIS EX-GIRLFRIEND, WHO HE HATES AND WANTS DEAD.
“Jeremy?”
OHHHHHHHHHHHH SHIT.
(...seriously, it took a minute for “that’s not Elena!” to kick in, mostly because that’s the only way Katherine could have gotten in UH-OH, DAMON SALVATORE. Amazing work, guys.)
27) SO. Caroline’s going into surgery; Tyler’s a werewolf; Matt...is Matt; Bonnie is MOTHERFUCKING AWESOME; Alaric is sticking around; Jenna is home alone with 1.5 vampires; Stefan is...presumably back at the boardinghouse, I don’t know, it was busy; Damon is slowly letting his inner human wake up to the smell of coffee and walking home with moonstones in his eyes; Jeremy might be becoming a vampire; and Elena’s walking into the kitchen for a date with her doppelganger and ancestor, Crazy Bitchpants Pierce, who’s murdered her uncle.
See you in September! Hopefully they’ll get cracking on that sex pollen thing before then.
1) There’s something weirdly awesome about Founders’ Day, AKA Civil War Reenactment Day. What kind of budget does this town have, that you can piss it away on era-appropriate uniforms? Jesus.
2) Aaaaaaaaand somewhere between the dress and the curtsey, you can see it in Damon’s face: He is in love with Elena Gilbert. He loves her. He is stupidly, passionately, not-even-to-piss-Stefan-off in love with that girl. And it is beautiful.
(That does not mean I want him to be with Elena. Ideally, I want the town to operate under a cloud of sex pollen, the way I think all the water fountains are filled with bourbon. Alternately, if they could just live in some giant polyamory mass of Elena/Stefan/Damon/Alaric/Bonnie, I would be thrilled.)
3) How weird must Founders’ Day be for Anna and the Salvatores? I imagine it’d be like if I woke up one day and this town decided to celebrate Z. Cavariccis and Hypercolor shirts.
4) “He’s your brother. He’ll forgive you.” Stefan! You need to take your own advice! Seriously, I’d pay real money if the two of them had to do some sort of couples’ weekend with trust falls and shit.
(“You need to be a rainbow, Stefan, not a painbow.” TELL ME YOU WOULD NOT HAVE THAT AS YOUR RINGTONE.)
5) “I don’t take what you did lightly, so...thank you.” And we’ll come back to this later, but this is the official start of The Very Long Night of Damon Salvatore, except at the end of it he realizes he likes people and kind of tells Jeremy. While looking like he wants to barf. It is so, so much better than it sounds.
6) For the record, as soon as Damon thanked Bonnie and apologized to her, I started crying.
7) So Jonathan Gilbert’s device – powered by magic, because he could not invent shit – is basically a giant tuning fork, freaking the fuck out of vampires. And Lockwoods. Who are not vampires. Just puttin’ that out there.
8) –-yeah, so the Lockwoods are totally werewolves. Hi, Season Two! I’m thinking of getting shirts made!
9) “[Elena] erased my memories.” “No, I did that.” Better nature waking up or not, Damon still gets really fucking twitchy when you try to take agency away from him. (If he chooses to lie, that’s a different story, but God forbid you try to do it for him.)
10) “Don’t make me regret being your friend.” Extra points for Damon’s “OH MY GOD, I HAVE FRIENDS NOW” face, followed immediately thereafter by “...goddammit, ‘friends’ doesn’t get your pants off.”
11) The town is now, essentially, run by Mrs. Lockwood and Sheriff Forbes. Who are both ladies. HOW AWESOME IS THAT.
12) “Rick! Do you still have weapons in your car?” Alaric Saltzman, the lost Winchester.
--Also, this totally means Damon and Alaric ARE BEFFIES NOW. Damon uses a nickname and asks for help, and Alaric doesn’t even blink, just runs to get stakes. Alaric is best friends with the dude who boned his wife and made her a vampire. Damon tried to kill Alaric. They are beffies. I LOVE THIS SHOW SO MUCH.
13) Mayor Lockwood tries to throw Tyler out and shove him around, and Caroline and Matt immediately flank him. This is because Tyler Lockwood has awesome friends.
14) If you had told me a year ago that I’d love Tyler and Caroline, I would have laughed ‘til I peed.
15) “What the hell are you?” Werewolves, Damon! They’re werewolves! Man, witches v. werewolves v. vampires. Have I mentioned I love Mystic Falls?
16) Oh, Mayor Lockwood. You were an alpha male douchebag (dear Alaric: RIGHT ON ALL COUNTS), and your wife is a drunk who makes eyes at men – okay, men way, way older than her – and you thought Vicki was white trash. You smacked your son around, and you used your townsfolk as bait. I...am not gonna miss you at all, actually, but it was worth it for his “OH SHIT AAAAAGH” when Damon told him he was a vampire.
17) Yeah, Bonnie shouldn’t have pulled that shit last week; yeah, Bonnie should have immediately grabbed Damon as soon as he apologized and told him and Stefan to get the fuck out of town. But she manned up, figured shit out, and saved their lives by smothering the fires while letting the actual bad vampires die. For the record, this totally makes everyone even. (You know, for Damon trying to kill her, and that time Stefan was a rabid drunk.)
18) And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you round up vampires in 2010: steampunk and witchery.
19) “I tried so hard to hate [Damon]. I guess it’s pointless.” This is officially more honest and clearheaded and healthy than SIX PUBLISHED BOOKS’ worth of familiar relationships. TV show, I just might love you best.
20) “But I love you, Stefan. You.” She’s not saying it to convince herself. She’s saying it because she loves her boyfriend, but he is thickheaded about this sort of thing (with very good reason). Elena Gilbert loves Stefan Salvatore. TV show, fuck might: I DO love you best.
21) Damon! You get points for trying, and I love you just for offering Jeremy a choice this time, but – I don’t know if you didn’t have emo, exactly, in 1864, but he is in exactly the wrong place to hear about how great it is for vampires not to feel shit. (Especially because that’s not what Damon was saying: it was awesome, and for a very long time, but he’s not doing that anymore.
22) Damon wanted to help Anna! He admitted what he did to Vicki was wrong! He looks guilty! Damon Salvatore feels things and likes people, and it is so fucking pretty I cannot even express it.
23) I’m not going to lie: the True Blood commercial was awesome, just because – really? That’s like a Twilight commercial, to me, right now: I am watching what’s essentially the bastard child of the two, and it is so much better than its parents.
24) Oh, Littlest Gilbert, really? Drinking Anna’s blood and taking all the pills in the house? You’re gonna be the first vampire in Mystic Falls to run the Hot Topic, aren’t you?
25) “Things have to change. Damon has to change.” Yes, because Bonnie Bennett will be the little cricket on his shoulder. Except if Pinocchio screwed up, Jiminy didn’t, you know, set him on fire.
“I know what I am, now.” You’re a witch who can set fires with your mind, and stop them. You can feel compassion for someone who tried to kill you. You’re Emily Bennett’s descendant, and the resident witch of Mystic Falls, Virginia. You are Bonnie Bennett and you are fucking badass. And I am so, so glad you didn’t die.
(Do not even tell me you can’t mine this for hatesex. Do not even tell me that.)
26) AND THEN.
Step One: Damon admits he likes people, and tacitly admits he’s in love with Elena, and kisses her. Elena kisses back. It is shockingly hot, for all that I don’t really ship them.
Step Two: Jenna, who was a teenager once, and is awesome now, glares disapprovingly at Damon and orders Elena inside.
Step Three: John comes home and starts explaining himself to Elena, who suddenly looks really, really dead-eyed, though who wouldn’t after your birth father tried to kill her loved o--
--OH SHIT, THAT’S KATHERINE.
OH SHIT, KATHERINE JUST CUT OFF JOHN’S FINGERS (in a shot way, way more graphic than I figured you could bust out at 8 PM on the CW) AND STABBED HIM IN THE CHEST. “Hi, John. Goodbye, John.”
OH SHIT, DAMON JUST MADE OUT WITH HIS EX-GIRLFRIEND, WHO HE HATES AND WANTS DEAD.
“Jeremy?”
OHHHHHHHHHHHH SHIT.
(...seriously, it took a minute for “that’s not Elena!” to kick in, mostly because that’s the only way Katherine could have gotten in UH-OH, DAMON SALVATORE. Amazing work, guys.)
27) SO. Caroline’s going into surgery; Tyler’s a werewolf; Matt...is Matt; Bonnie is MOTHERFUCKING AWESOME; Alaric is sticking around; Jenna is home alone with 1.5 vampires; Stefan is...presumably back at the boardinghouse, I don’t know, it was busy; Damon is slowly letting his inner human wake up to the smell of coffee and walking home with moonstones in his eyes; Jeremy might be becoming a vampire; and Elena’s walking into the kitchen for a date with her doppelganger and ancestor, Crazy Bitchpants Pierce, who’s murdered her uncle.
See you in September! Hopefully they’ll get cracking on that sex pollen thing before then.
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Seriously, this was AWESOME.
Bonnie PWNS, and of COURSE there can be hatesex from this.
Meanwhile Damon has a boyfriend. And BFF.
Katherine is back. And is ready to fuck with everybody's heads..
And Tyler is NOT the most hateful character in town. That is SO much better than in the books, you know? This Tyler HAS A CHANCE.
*GLEEEES*
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So Much Yes.
The town is now, essentially, run by Mrs. Lockwood and Sheriff Forbes. Who are both ladies. HOW AWESOME IS THAT.
wheeeeeeeeeeee! My Sheriff was so damn awesome in her little bits in this episode. She would NOT stand idlely by and had to be TIED DOWN while Asshole Mayor went to get his kid out of town and fuck every other bystander. (and she got to be tragically right, as the Mayor himself and Caroline were victims) <3333333
Damon wanted to help Anna! He admitted what he did to Vicki was wrong! He looks guilty! Damon Salvatore feels things and likes people, and it is so fucking pretty I cannot even express it.
SO AMAZING. PEOPLE DON'T EVEN KNOW. I pity the people who have not embraced TVD so hard tonight.
I've really loved watching Damon twist and turn and unravel into something fantastic this season. ♥
Damon uses a nickname and asks for help, and Alaric doesn’t even blink, just runs to get stakes. Alaric is best friends with the dude who boned his wife and made her a vampire. Damon tried to kill Alaric. They are beffies. I LOVE THIS SHOW SO MUCH.
It was all so automatic and easy! I loved that Damon had total confidence that Alaric could handle his part of this shit--went to him immediately, and Alaric didn't question his motives, didn't hesitate to go with it. LOVE.
Bonnie totally redeemed herself to me AS I KNEW SHE WOULD. I was sure there'd be some consequences (HELLO, PAGING CAROLINE--OH, SHE CAN'T COME TO THE PHONE RIGHT NOW?) but I had faith that Bonnie would ultimately repay Elena's trust.
Because I fully believe that at least a bit of Katherine's KICK ASS STABBING was payback for Pearl.
That's right, show! For every awesome woman whose character door has to close, we get another entrance. ♥ ♥